I think this is a good idea, but perhaps most LyX developers may not want to waste much time on SNS like the our generation :) LyX does have a Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110001097193208807095/about but as you can see, it is not actively maintained, and I have no idea who is behind that account.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > Any interest in having a LyX twitter account? I would like to set one > up but would only do so if others would find it interesting. > > Potential advantages: > -- get news out (e.g. GSOC, 2.1 beta) > -- occasionally show off a new feature (Tomasso want to share your LyX > chat idea?) > -- ask for feedback (I imagine there are people who do not want to > subscribe to the lyx-users list but would be happy to give feedback on > something if they are following LyX) > -- retweet some things. This would give people a way of following LyX > tweets that don't have to do with luxury (this is what "lyx" means in > Swedish and is the most common use of the hashtag). > > Here are some selected relevant tweets with #lyx: > > https://twitter.com/u203d/status/392915523870019584 > It feels good to finally be free from the tyranny of #PowerPoint (and > clones) now that I create my slides with #Lyx and the beamer class. > > https://twitter.com/hawaii_666/status/391210995789471744 > Just showed #lyx to a colleague and realized again how awesome LaTeX > is! #documents #latex #canbesoeasyandnice http://www.lyx.org/ > > https://twitter.com/stevepowell99/status/390915966340583424 > Why does #MSWord corrupt docs when it crashes? #libreoffice and #lyx > don't. Just happened again #groan > > https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/369143689341194241 > Create #LaTeX documents graphically with #LyX > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-lyx/index.html?ca=drs > …- been using it for over a decade, it's still improving. > > I didn't find any previous discussion about a LyX twitter account. > > Scott
